After Being Sold Out By The Empire, I Decide To Assist The Demon King
Chapter 211 - 79: Reforming Agriculture with Magic

Chapter 211: Chapter 79: Reforming Agriculture with Magic

In Yila’s understanding, agriculture was an extremely important matter, followed by the military, and then everything else... The need for manpower in agriculture in this era was immense.

Of course, this did not mean that other things were not important, but in the Demon King Territory... the importance of agriculture was even more exaggerated.

The reason was simple. If it were in the empire, those farmers, when they did not farm, had no other useful skills. They couldn’t become warriors or magicians.

The constitution and bloodline of the civilians simply did not reach the required standards.

However, it was different in the Demon King Territory. If the little demons and goblins could be freed, they would have the potential to become professionals. The warrior roles for goblins were not of much concern.

But the little demons were different. Not to mention the perfect warrior evolution from short demon to strong demon, to roar demon, to fierce battle demon, to Callo War King Demon. Even evolving into a demon dog trainer would allow them to command more White Ball Monkeys.

This could increase the production of White Ball Wine.

Yila’s idea was to first liberate the labor force needed for "irrigation." Building a canal was a great option. Originally, digging a canal was a considerable hassle, requiring continuously finding suitable slabs.

But with concrete, it was completely different now.

As long as the canals were paved with concrete, the framework of the canal could be easily constructed. Then, as long as the canal connecting the river had a certain slope, the water could flow from the river along the canal.

However...

He was not a professional designer and had a rather crude understanding in this area.

He knew it *needed to be done*, but he didn’t know *how exactly to do it*...

To put it simply... he didn’t know how.

Digging a canal and letting water flow did reduce the effort the little demons needed for fetching water, saving their time and energy... However, this did not fundamentally improve things. It only changed from *fetching water from afar* to *fetching water nearby*.

Even though this change was already a significant improvement.

Yila was now thinking beyond this... He was considering how to achieve the ultimate release of productivity in the current world without the convenience of *running water*—through drip irrigation.

This involved placing some pipes over the crops, with small holes in the pipes. These holes would drip water slowly, at a rate of a droplet every few minutes or every minute.

As long as there was a water source... For example, a large reservoir built at a higher elevation than the pipes, or using running water, irrigation could be achieved very conveniently.

In this way, only a few little demons would be needed to complete the daily work.

But this posed a serious problem...

Where would running water come from in this world? This world did not have electric magnets, and developing a steam engine to replicate such a machine would be more difficult than simply asking a Witch Demon to cast the Water Creation Technique daily.

Or... should the little demons and goblins learn the Water Creation Technique?

Right, after all, the blue fungus and wheat were not like the Ancient Priest Tree that required enormous amounts of water. They didn’t need Legendary Magic to alter the weather, and the Water Creation Technique was only about a thousand words to recite.

The spell model also matched the difficulty of "around a thousand words." Constructing it wasn’t particularly difficult, and Mana was not an issue... The more water the spell created, the more Mana it consumed.

Perhaps a single little demon would find it challenging to produce a barrel of water, but they could certainly produce a bottle. Then, each demon could use the spell together... and they could even use this to practice their spell-casting abilities.

"A win-win situation..."

Yila couldn’t help but sigh. Ever since he came to the Demon King Territory, he had been using his knowledge from the former world to make improvements. Yet, he had forgotten that the demons were far stronger than humans... not just in constitution, but also in quality.

Getting imperial magicians to use the Water Creation Technique in farming was impossible, irrespective of willingness... If they used their spells to create water every day, how could they conduct magic research? How could they obtain their mage titles?

Moreover, it was definitely not more convenient than digging canals to fetch water.

As for teaching the civilians the Water Creation Technique? Leaving aside who would teach them, the civilians simply couldn’t learn it... even if they memorized the text, they couldn’t construct the spell model with Mana.

Civilians were civilians because their bloodline was that of civilians...

But in the Demon King Territory, it was different. The bloodline of the little demons and goblins was robust enough to support their learning of magic... at least for something like the Water Creation Technique.

However, magic wasn’t something one could just teach. The Mage Tower strictly regulated that a mage could not hold classes to teach spells. It was only allowed through a "teacher-student" relationship and forbidden to pass on spells beyond the Pure White Tower unless prior permission was obtained.

"It was time to take a trip back to the Pure White Tower."

Yila muttered to himself helplessly, jotting down his upcoming schedule on parchment. He set aside the irrigation matter... With that, the agricultural reform was temporarily concluded. For the next step...

As Yila was deep in thought, a familiar voice came from the front. It was the voice of his former junior, now the Witch Demon: "Senior Yila, have you received the news?"

Raising his head, Yila saw his junior the Witch Demon, Mobillas Valendo, waving his hand, and said: "My familiar has already informed me. This week’s meeting... Senior Vera is here too? So, you all know?"

Before Mobillas could finish speaking, Vera’s voice sounded from behind, saying: "Ah, Yila, you are indeed on this side of the field, as Tipcapu said. Junior is here too... It seems you all have received the message."

"..."

"???"

Yila looked at both of them in confusion. Watching them exchange glances, it was Vera who finally spoke: "This week’s Sunday, the [Tower Meeting] will be held as usual... Yila, you didn’t attend the last one, are you going this time?"

The White Tower Meeting? But...

"But the meeting is supposed to happen once every fifty years... There should still be ten years, right?"

Yila asked, and Mobillas explained simply, "It’s roughly every fifty years. Recently, the meetings have been more frequent. I heard there were only 40 years between the last two, and this time it’s only been 38 years... Senior, are you going this time?"

"..."

"I’ll go."

Yila nodded...

He could talk to the White Tower about the knowledge-sharing transactions then. It was a fortunate coincidence; he wouldn’t need a special trip to the White Tower for that.

But the so-called "increased frequency"

*gave him a bad feeling... Maybe it was just an illusion?*